In a suit seeking to recover for severe injuries to a 13-year-old girl allegedly injured by a boat propeller as she attempted to board the boat after tubing with her friends, a Norfolk U.S. District Court rejects defendant’s attempts to ...

A notice of removal that failed to doubly designate that diversity jurisdiction existed both at the time suit was filed and when the notice of removal was filed may be amended to cure the imperfectly stated jurisdictional allegation, says a ...

Plaintiff, manager of the Learning Resources Center at Strayer University, may try her claim for failure to accommodate in violation of the ADA based on employer’s alleged denial of her request for a shift change from night to day shift ...

A Richmond U.S. District Court denies remand of an auto-accident plaintiff’s suit because of his fraudulent joinder of nondiverse defendants, including insurance adjusters, who were not named in the assignment of rights under which plaintiff is suing; the Richmond U.S. ...

In plaintiff’s suit alleging she was injured when a boxed, artificial Christmas tree was improperly stacked, fell from a shelf and struck her in the head, the Richmond U.S. District Court grants summary judgment for defendant Big Lots Stores as ...

In a Libertarian political candidate’s suit challenging Virginia laws and practices that assign small-party and independent candidates a lower place on voting ballots, a Richmond U.S. District Court grants the commonwealth’s motion to dismiss; Virginia has articulated a sufficient reason ...

A Honduran citizen’s prior Virginia conviction of unauthorized use of a vehicle was not a “theft offense” that would qualify as an “aggravated felony” under 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(G); Virginia’s statute, Va. Code § 18.2-102, covers circumstances typically viewed as ...

An employee of a North Carolina company that hired a Virginia subcontractor for site preparation for a new drugstore in Virginia Beach cannot sue the Virginia subcontractor for negligence for his injuries when a bulldozer backed over him; the 4th ...

A teenage cashier can sue defendant Kroger for sexual harassment based on its alleged failure to respond to her persistent complaints about a coworker who made sexual comments and touched her, and for retaliation, for work assignments she received after ...